What is Marie Curie Famous for? Explore her life, biography, and the legacy of her discoveries: radium and polonium.

Over a hundred years on, Marie Curie’s work still powers nuclear medicine, fuels global research, and stands as a data point ...

Marie Curie was a physicist, chemist and pioneer in the study of radiation. She discovered the elements polonium and radium ...

No detail was too small for Rosamund Pike, the British Oscar-nominated “Gone Girl” star, to play the legendary scientist Marie Curie, the only woman to win two Nobel Prizes, in “Radioactive.” ...

The most radioactive elements found on Earth include Polonium, Radium, and Radon. Learn why elements with short half-lives, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover the history of science and exploration. Today marks the 150 th birthday of the most famous woman in science, Marie Curie, ...

THE idea has for some time been afloat that the polonium found in radio-active minerals is a product of the radium that they contain. I have recently made an experiment which seems to afford ...

This image released by Amazon shows Rosamund Pike as Marie Curie in a scene from "Radioactive." (Amazon via AP) This image released by Amazon shows Rosamund Pike as Marie Curie in a scene from ...

A CONVERSATION I had with Prof. Bragg, of the Adelaide University, in passing through Adelaide last summer suggested some thoughts in regard to the nature of the α rays which may be of interest in ...

Elizabeth Rona’s work taught us fundamental details about atoms. Her preoccupation with the radioactivity of seawater and ocean sediments revealed the hands of a clock, stretching back eons. She did ...

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